John Obadiah Westwood

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John Obadiah Westwood. (22.XII.1805 - 2.I.1893)

British entomologist and archaeologist.

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• Westwood, J.O. 1827. Entomology. 24 March. Lit. Gaz.: 185.
• Westwood, J.O. 1832. Description of several British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. London & Edinburgh Philos. Mag. J. Sci., 1: 127-129.
• Westwood, J.O. 1832. Class Insecta. Griffith, E. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. Whittaker, London. 796 pp.
• Westwood, J.O. 1833. Further notices of the British parasitic hymenopterous insects; together with the "Transactions of a fly with a long tail," observed by Mr. E. W. Lewis; and additional observations. Magazine of Natural History, 6: 414-421.
• Westwood, J.O. 1833. Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. London & Edinburgh Philos. Mag. J. Sci., 2: 443-445.
• Westwood, J.O. 1833. Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. London & Edinburgh Philos. Mag. J. Sci., 3: 342-344.
• Westwood, J.O. 1835. "...Hymenopterous Insects, which Mr Westwood regarded as new to science." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3: 68-72.
• Westwood, J.O. 1835. Characters of new genera and species of hymenopterous insects.... Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3: 51-72.
• Westwood, J.O. 1839. An introduction to the modern classification of insects. Vol. 2, part 11, pp. 193-224. London.
• Westwood, J.O. 1840. An introduction to the modern classification of insects. Vol. 2. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. 587 pp.
• Westwood, J.O. 1840. Observations on the genus Typhlopone, with descriptions of several exotic species of ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6: 81-89.
• Westwood, J.O. 1840. Synopsis of the genera of British Insects. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. 158 pp.
• Westwood, J.O. 1841. On the Evaniidae and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (1)7: 535-538.
• Westwood, J.O. 1842. Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. Arcana Entomologica, 1(5): 73-80.
• Westwood, J.O. 1843. On the Mutillae of New Holland. Arcana Entomologica, 2(14): 17-22.
• Westwood, J.O. 1843. On Evania and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 3(4): 237-278.
• Westwood, J.O. 1845. Description of a new species of the hymenopterous genus Aenictus, belonging to the Dorylidae. Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, 1840-1846: 85.
• Westwood, J.O. 1847. Description of a new dorylideous insect from South Africa, belonging to the genus Aenictus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 4: 237-238.
• Westwood, J.O. 1847. Description of the "Driver" ants, described in the preceding article. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 5: 16-18.
• Westwood, J.O. 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Hymenoptera belonging to Evania and the allied genera, being a supplement to a memoir on those insects published in the third volume of the Transactions of the Entomological Society. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, (2)1: 213-234.
• Westwood, J.O. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 10: 378-396.
• Westwood, J.O. 1874. Thesaurus entomologicus oxoniensis; or, illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects, for the most part contained in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F. W. Hope, M.A., D.C.L., R.R.S., &c. Claredon Press, Oxford. 205 pp.
• Westwood, J.O. 1875. Descriptions of some new species of short-tongued bees belonging to the genus Nomia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1875: 207-222.